#vulpes x courier 6

[birchbierart]

He did it for espionage purposes trust 🙏

Og meme:

[fenriswine]

—Cold, Cold Heart

"I want you to witness the fate of the town of Nipton, to memorise every detail. And then, when you move on?"

And memorise, she did. As witnessing such a thing was a pretty traumatising experience for my Courier.

As i’m replaying fallout nv rn i’ll probably draw more of Kai’s adventures. ALSO IM FOREVER WHITE HAIRED VULPES TRUTHER

[artikmonkiz]

[bellonathedragonborn]

I think I did a good job making the twins actually look like Vulpes and Adrien’s kids.

Wouldn’t you agree?

The twins have freckles from Vulpes’ dad.

[fitcherslane]

Excerpt:

“Hey there!” A woman jumped into his vision, grinning as she smoothed her hair as red as the sky back into a tight ponytail. “Say, you look mighty helpful and I’m feeling as if I’ve gone and missed somethin’!” She stopped, expecting him to explain.

Inculta looked around, waiting for a legionary to come looking for their lost woman.

“Everyone looks so busy!” She kept going, buttoning up her denim jumpsuit. “I’ll say, I’ve never seen the Fort like this! Is this some kind of cultural festival? Or event? Oh! Is someone getting married? I love weddings!”

She sounded strange. He’d known of similar accents in merchants traveling through Legion lands — a lilt that was song-like, with every word ending as if a question. It set his teeth on edge as she rambled on, his fingers twitching for his Ripper.

“Hmm...Although it doesn’t look ready for one. Not that it isn’t lovely! Many ways to do things, of course! Learned that on my travels! The hard way! Just not the decor I would have picked. That’s all. Oh! Who’s the lucky lady?”

“Why are you here?” His voice was tight.

“Here? Oh, now that's a long story! Came all the way from the Capital Wasteland and been on the road since! What you’ll do for a friend! Right?”

Inculta held her gaze.

She smiled and tried to make herself smaller. “You meant why I’m in the Fort didn’t you? Not…here?”

Chapter 23 is out! Hope you enjoy! 💕

Link is below 💕

[fancymuffinparty]

Ars poetica, ars belli

Fallout: New Vegas, F!Courier x Vulpes Inculta fic

Rating: M

Chapter 9 is up! I have also included my inspo/character design for the Courier and Vulpes below (courtesy of artbreeder) for those who were curious! ;)

Courier Six Stats:

S: 4, P: 7, E: 5, C: 3, I: 8, A: 6, L: 5

Karma: Good

Tagged skills:

Science - 78, Repair - 77, Explosives - 76

(Dabbles in Sneak (64) and Lockpick (62)

Age: early 20s

Race: Mixed - Native American and Hispanic (Navajo and Mexican descent)

Character History:

Former resident of Vault 21. Would have been Vault's librarian/archivist according to results from GOAT Exam. Formerly worked with Followers of the Apocalypse. Former companion to Arcade Gannon. Likes Goodsprings. Adored by the Boomers. Not a fan of Mr. House or the NCR. Took care of Benny by convincing Swank he was a fink all along. (Maybe had a little crush on Swank.)

Got mixed up in Legion business believing she could form a temporary alliance with the Bull for personal gain/revenge against Mr. House as well as assistance in pushing the NCR out of the wasteland. (The Legion had also made not-so-subtle threats to kill Rex and Arcade should she refuse.) Somewhat agoraphobic, being a vaultie and all. Prefers night to day. Hoards pre-war books and reads a lot. Loves all things Latin/Roman/Greek poetry, mythology, and philosophy.

Still haven't thought of a name for her... hmmm... TBD!

I love sprinkling tidbits of this Courier's lore here and there! More to come as I update APAB! :)

Much thanks to artbreeder for inspiring me!

[sunnis-shinis]

thinking of courier 6 and vulpes as han x leia scenes, i lvoe them,,,,

[retrospeccd-writes]

Why actually write when you can waste hours on Artbreeder instead??

Anyway... Nobody asked for it but I am giving it to you anyway, Vulpes and Dahlia from my fic In Somnis Veritas!

EDIT: updated with a better rendition of Dahlia

[deaconusdelirium]

Companions reaction to Courier being really good at sniping

I’m adding a few people from either DLC’s or just ones we were robbed of in-game. It’s most likely going to be like that for all my preferences

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Arcade≈

“And here I thought you were just a mail man/woman”

He’s a bit surprised, but already knew that you were capable of some things he didn’t know possible. Like that one time you manage to impress the absolute shit out of him by shoving a broc flower and xander root into an empty syringe, then stabbing yourself, calling the item a ‘stimpak’

Boone≈

“Whoever can shoot the furthest Legionary wins”

Boone take it as competition, and whenever you kneel or lay down to snipe, he right beside you doing as well. He’ll ask where you’re aiming and be on the same target, watching your hidden talent come to life. If he’s romanced, then what better way than to stay late out at night in Dino, sniping a few slavers as they walk pass?

Cass≈

“Well I’ll be damned. Bet you can’t do it while downing a bottle of whiskey before though”

She’s impressed alright, but she’ll be over the moon if you can still have that good shot on your targets if you’re drunk. She may even give you another bottle if you manage to kill each and every one of your enemies, then she’ll go a bit easier on you. Telling you to relax and sit down, then handing you another bottle for a reward

Raul≈

“Sure boss, your eyesight is a lot better through a scope, but close up?… y-you did good”

He’s sarcastic as ever, he wants to say what comes to mind, but with you holding a rifle in hand standing directly in front of him? He just praises you instead, not wanting to get on your bad side, or making it seem like you aren’t the greatest sniper in the Mojave. He secretly thinks you’re better than Boone

Veronica≈

“Ooh! But wouldn’t it be a lot better if you could just punch them?”

She’ll rant on and on about your hidden talent, asking you to teach her even if she’s the best with fists. She jumps from conversation to conversation, it could be about when you shot the antenna off of a mantis or that time you no scoped a gecko when she accidentally scared you about it, making you just turn and pull the trigger, you still put the poor thing down

Vulpes≈

“You still manage to show your capabilities, ones that I didn’t know of. Impressive”

He’s shocked on the inside, but on the outside, he’s blowing it off with his tough soldier act. He’ll raise a brow, wait for you to finish, and then comment. He’s spied on you before without you knowing, and not once has he seen you be so good at sniping until now. He always adds on before a mission, that you should scout ahead and take out any distracted NCR troops. He just likes seeing you at work

Ulysses≈

“I see no use of that. But if it’s for tunnelers, then I suppose so”

He couldn’t care, he’s never been one for longe ranged weaponry such as your choice of gun, but he’s open to it. As long as you don’t shoot innocent creatures, or the marked men for no reason then he’s alright with it, he’ll even look through the scope at deathclaws and mole rats who roam freely, he may even try to learn himself as well

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[chaosintheavenue]

Fallout Opinion Survey- Results!

Thank you so much to all those who took part! We had 421 usable responses in total :D

One quick note- the nature of the data this time around means that most of the auto-generated charts are usable as they are, which does mean this post will be very image-heavy. I’d be very appreciative if someone who knows how to write image descriptions for charts could add them on!

Without further ado, let’s get into the results...

The Basics:

Favourite DLC:

Dead Money- 115 (...nice) Old World Blues- 94 Far Harbor- 76 Lonesome Road- 53 Nuka World- 27 Point Lookout- 17 Honest Hearts- 11 The Pitt- 9 Mothership Zeta- 7 Automatron- 3 Operation Anchorage- 3 Broken Steel- 2 Vault-Tec Workshop- 1

Favourite faction:

Followers of the Apocalypse- 146 Railroad- 62 Minutemen- 45 NCR- 23 Kings- 22 Brotherhood of Steel (all chapters combined)- 20 Yes Man/Wildcard Courier- 18 Great Khans- 14 Enclave- 10 Caesar's Legion- 8 Raiders (76, Nuka World and general combined)- 8 Institute- 6 Chairmen- 5 Unity- 4 Atom Cats- 3 Mr House- 3 Boomers- 3 Freeside- 2 Responders- 2 Children of Atom- 2 Ghoul settlements in general- 2 Hubologists- 2 Tunnel Snakes- 2 And the list of those with one vote each: The Family, Think Tank, Reaver Movement, Ciphers, Broken Hills, Powder Gangers, Reilly's Rangers, Acadia, Goodneighbor, Underworld, White Glove Society, Omertas, Jacobstown, post-Legion Ulysses, Cult of the Mothman, 80s, and talking Deathclaws from Fallout 2

Favourite companion:

Arcade Gannon- 75 Nick Valentine- 53 Hancock- 39 Veronica- 38 Deacon- 30 ED-E- 26 Raul- 23 Boone- 22 MacCready- 13 Christine Royce- 12 Dogmeat (all)- 11 Fawkes- 10 Preston Garvey- 10 Charon- 9 Rex- 9 Butch Deloria- 8 Goris- 8 Cait- 7 Danse- 7 Piper- 7 Lily- 6 Marcus- 6 Rose of Sharon Cassidy- 6 Curie- 5 Porter Gage- 4 Dean Domino- 4 X6-88- 3 Strong- 3 Ulysses- 3 RL-3- 3 Ian- 2 Dog/God- 2 Codsworth- 2 Joshua Graham- 2 Old Longfellow- 2 Lenny- 2 Ada- 2 And the 'list of ones': Tycho, Katja, Follows-Chalk, Sydney

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The Lore:

(other titles specifically mentioned in the final question: Metro and Doom)

Characters headcanoned as synths: The Sole Survivor (by far the most common theory), Sturges, Deacon, Preston Garvey, the Lone Wanderer in Broken Steel, James/Dad, Dogmeat, Three Dog, Parker Quinn, Charon, Courier Six, Tinker Tom, Zeke, Arthur Maxson, Father/older Shaun, Piper, Travis Miles, Mysterious Stranger, Caesar ('cause funny'), Joshua Graham, most Children of Atom, Desdemona, Myrna, Marcy Long, Mr Burke, Vault 76 Overseer, Trashcan Carla, Cricket, many BoS and Enclave members, Reaver Movement members, Redeye, Moira Brown, Dr Zimmer, Ranger Ghost, most birds, Arcade Gannon, Elijah, Lizzie Wyatt, Kellogg, Mama Murphy, Nat Wright, and Sierra Petrovita

(please note I'm not all that familiar with Fallout 4 lore, if any of the FO4 peeps here are canon synths then I didn't know about it lol)

Fan theories/headcanons from the final question that cropped up repeatedly (in approximate order of popularity):

Vault-Tec started the Great War

Alien involvement with the pre-war US government and/or the Great War

Horses are still around

Talking Deathclaws are still around

Occult/eldritch influence (e.g. the Dunwich building) is widespread

Charon is a survivor of Vault 92

Deacon is a founder of the Railroad and his 'real' backstory was another lie

Veronica and Christine reunite

Sarah Lyons is alive

Gen 3 synths and ghouls still need to eat, drink, sleep and so on

Ghouls only turn feral in specific circumstances (suggestions include prolonged isolation and relying too heavily on radiation instead of food as a source of energy) and it is not inevitable

International travel and immigration continues

Danse and Harkness were sent to the Capital Wasteland by the Railroad together

X person is actually multiple people- suggested for Deacon, Legate Lanius and Vulpes Inculta

The US is the either the only place that was nuked or the only place that hasn't rebuilt and recovered, and the rest of the world is just ignoring them and carrying on as normal

Cass is the Chosen One's daughter

Mama Murphy is the Chosen One

No-Bark Noonan is the Chosen One (lots of Chosen One theories popping up lol)

All subsequent Dogmeats in the series are named after the legend of the original Dogmeat

Father is not really Shaun

MacCready is lying about Duncan being ill (or one person even suggested Duncan existing)

Yes Man overthrows the Courier after being upgraded

The real Lone Wanderer died at the end of the vanilla game even if Broken Steel is installed, and the Broken Steel LW is a synth

Deacon once worked for the Institute

Deacon deliberately leads people to theorise that he is the Lone Wanderer to throw them off

Deacon is or was once a ghoul (also plenty of Deacon theories)

The Mysterious Stranger is a time traveller who protects the various PCs to maintain the timeline

Appalachia was turned into a barren wasteland by the nuclear trigger-happiness of the Vault 76 Dwellers (possibly interesting aside: my brother, who buys into this one, has gone as far as to theorise that the original Great War used very low-yield weapons and wasn't that severe on the environmental level (as far as literal nuclear war goes, that is), and it was the Vault 76ers nuking the hell out of Appalachia that triggered a continent-wide nuclear winter and sent the ecology of the wasteland into the state it's in in all subsequent games)

Glory is not a synth

The (in-game) reason for lore clashes and retcons is that the plot of each game is a retelling  of the story as it's passed around in the wasteland, so some details have been embellished or mixed up

I’ll be coming back to the theories from the final question at some point, but aside from that, that's a wrap! There isn't really much potential for me to play around with the data here like with the OC surveys, so this was more just me presenting the data as it came in without commentary. Still, I hope this is somehow interesting/insightful!

[artikmonkiz]

[bellonathedragonborn]

Imagine Adrien doing a film series on “why foxes make bad pets” but it’s them following Vulpes around filming him.

[themarchingchemist]

Well...

So, I couldn’t fall asleep since I woke up at 3AM, so I finally fleshed out the details on my first (and maybe only?) OC for use in my RPs and fanfictions for FNV.

En-fucking-joy.

Name: Tyrannus Mars or Ty or Mars

Story Role: M!Courier - NCR

Description: Extremely pale skin, color of cold ash. Various sizes of scars liter his body, especially on his chest, stomach, and back. Two long gashes run through the middle of his head as a result of Benny's gun shots, hidden by his hair. Distinct bright red hair, the color of fresh, oxygenated blood. Hairstyle is very long and shaggy, with a very thick beard to match. Defined body build, with little to no visible fat present if he was ever topless. Facial structure resembles that of Christian Bale.

Family: Orphaned due to the fledgling Caesar’s Legion

Friends: Raul Tejada, Craig Boone, Rose of Sharon Cassidy, Ulysses, Sarah Weintraub (only with benefits), Yes Man, Fisto (with...benefits)

Backstory:

Ty was a former Frumentarii originally sent out to explore the Western wastes for Caesar in 2255. Instead of going through the Mojave first, he explored the Pacific Northwest before coming down into what was California, making first contact with the NCR around 2260. At this point, Ty had been away from the Legion for 10 years and what had been unswerving loyalty to Caesar had given way to a more pragmatic and sensible loyalty to oneself. After all, Caesar nor the Legion were there to help him fend off the various beasts and savages in the Pacific Northwest and California. His only memory was still that of a fledgling nation assembled from enslaved tribes; Ty did not know Legion had expanded by then. As a result, he ended up assimilating into the NCR, hiding his former allegiances to prevent himself from being looked down as another filthy tribal.

Ironically enough, he would eventually find himself slowly making himself back east whilst moving from town to town doing jobs for caps, shelter, and food. By the time NCR found Hoover Dam in 2274, he had inadvertently found himself back in Arizona. It had been 19 years since he had seen sign of the Legion and had himself a true NCR citizen by then, having forgotten most of his former life. However, the Legion had not forgotten about him. In the many years he had not reported back to Caesar, he had been deemed to be a traitor and declared in damnatio memoriae by Caesar himself. The many times he nearly found himself crucified by the hands of his childhood friends, the hands of the people he once considered to be his brothers, started the flame of intense hatred for all members of the Legion that only grew with each time an assassin came for his throat. 2276 was the first time Ty found himself in the lands of the Mojave wastes.

Ty did not personally attend the first Battle for Hoover Dam in 2277, but he did celebrate greatly when he found that the NCR had crushed Caesar’s forces under the Malpais Legate. By then, he had found his steadiest job yet as a courier for the Mojave Express….

SPECIAL: Str. (6), Per. (6) End. (5) Cha. (10) Int. (10) Agi. (8) Luc. (10)

Loadout (Pre-Mojave): Plain black courier duster, Desperado cowboy hat, Brush gun, Machete, 15x Healing Powder, Caravan deck, 1500x caps.

Loadout (Mojave - PA): Enclave’s Advanced Power Armor (full set, from Deathclaw Promontory and Silver Peak Mine), Q35 Matter Modulator, Fusion Core x 20, 5 x Stimpack, 5 x Healing Powder, 20 x Whiskey, 600 x MF Cells. 200x caps

Loadout (Mojave - NonPA): Riot Gear (stolen from a Ranger he slept with one night), Desperado cowboy hat, Brush gun, Machete, 15x Healing Powder, Caravan deck, 500x caps

Ideals: “Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice.” Ty had been taught at a very young age as a Legion child to constantly give glory to Caesar at all times. When he shed his allegiance to Caesar, he sought to glorify himself through the actions he does in his own lifetime and to see what those actions do to change the wastes around him. Money to him is only a means to an end to further his own glory, and not a final desire.

Bonds: The bonds he desires fall into the pragmatic side. Whenever he meets a person and evaluates their relationship to himself, Ty always asks himself the phrase cui bono? If the answer finds that he is not benefitting from their relationship in the slightest bit, he swiftly gives them a courteous goodbye.

Flaws: Extreme pragmaticism has left him with nobody to really depend on as a person. Though he envisions himself as a demigod beyond the needs of his own flesh at times, in particularly rough days in the wastes, he too can fall to the spectre of loneliness and depression. But hey, that’s what whiskey and jet are for!

Do to his upbringing by the legion, he has also developed a fair sense of superiority over the opposite sex. Any woman who proves his view wrong however earns his respect, since a woman ought to be able to handle herself like a man in the wastes in order to survive.  

Defining moments: The crucifixion of his parents; over 75 repeated assassinations by his former Legion brothers, including some by Vulpes himself, by the time he relocated to the Mojave.

What would they eat for breakfast: Whiskey, jet, and a brahmin steak.

If given an arbitrary choice between left and right, which would they choose? Left. In Latin, the word for left happens to be sinistra, which, in English, is the root of the word sinister.

What Harry Potter house would they be in and why? Slytherin. Undeniably. See his SPECIAL.

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Dedicated to @instishoot, @shells-void, @dragonie, @constellation-consultant for helping me get hooked on this fandom. Y’all are amazing people.

[artikmonkiz]

vulpes keychain.... vulpes keychain.....

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[artikmonkiz]

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